Fraunhofer IIS will showcase how its Full-HD Voice codec, Enhanced Low Delay AAC (AAC-ELD), supercharges the communication quality of any VoIP app, be it for smartphones, tablets or televisions at CES 2013.

Fujifilm Corp. developed a new recording method for optical discs, which takes advantage of the two-photon absorption phenomenon to apply heat-mode recording on multiple recording layers of an optical disc.

Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is leaving the company, Microsoft announced late Monday, leading to speculations that the company could be dissatisfied with early sales of the operating system.